An early portrait of one of Spain’s finest writers.
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón was a child in the Logroño of the sixties, a teenager in the Zaragoza of the seventies, and an aspiring novelist in the Barcelona of the eighties. His boyhood was no different from anyone else’s, and he came from a happy family, until his father’s untimely demise. Those formative years would go on to shape his literary practice.
This is an early portrait of one of Spain’s finest writers, a literary memoir that reflects profound shifts in Spanish society, which in very little time transitioned from stale dictatorship to stalwart European democracy.
“Readers of Linens will find the portrait of a rather ordinary young man who is neither tall nor short, handsome nor ugly, good nor bad, but without a doubt gifted with the skill of storytelling. I aimed to leverage that gift to tell the story of myself. The story of myself and, most importantly, of an era.” Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
An early portrait of one of Spain’s finest writers.
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón was a child in the Logroño of the sixties, a teenager in the Zaragoza of the seventies, and an aspiring novelist in the Barcelona of the eighties. His boyhood was no different from anyone else’s, and he came from a happy family, until his father’s untimely demise. Those formative years would go on to shape his literary practice.
This is an early portrait of one of Spain’s finest writers, a literary memoir that reflects profound shifts in Spanish society, which in very little time transitioned from stale dictatorship to stalwart European democracy.
“Readers of Linens will find the portrait of a rather ordinary young man who is neither tall nor short, handsome nor ugly, good nor bad, but without a doubt gifted with the skill of storytelling. I aimed to leverage that gift to tell the story of myself. The story of myself and, most importantly, of an era.” Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
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